Company Introduces New Developer Experiences to Power Next Generation
Applications

September 08, 2016 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at BoxWorks 2016, Box (NYSE:BOX), a leading enterprise content
platform, announced several enhancements to its Box Platform offering,
including new tools for developers, and showcased new partners and
customers who are leveraging Box Platform in building next generation
enterprise applications. Introduced October 2015, Box Platform is the
leading platform for developers and enterprises building secure,
collaborative, engaging applications around content assets like
documents, audio and video files, 3D objects, and other rich media.

“Technology today is transforming every aspect of how businesses operate
and successful companies will be defined by the quality of the digital
experiences and software they create to engage customers, partners and
employees,” said Jeetu Patel, Chief Strategy Officer and SVP of Box
Platform. “Content and collaboration are fundamental to every industry
and Box Platform makes it easy to build on Box’s innovative security,
content management and collaboration. Box is where all your work comes
together, and Box Platform enables developers to extend the power of Box
to transform and accelerate their business.”

Powerful new services and capabilities for Box Platform

Businesses of all sizes leverage Box Platform to power the content layer
in their applications. Box announced several enhancements to its Box
Platform offering today, including:

Support for new content types: building on Box’s existing
preview capabilities, which allows developers to embed interactive
viewers of files in their web and mobile applications, Box announced
support for several new file types including HD video, 360 images and
videos, 3D models, and VR files. These new file types are available
today for web applications using a JavaScript SDK and will be
available for mobile in the coming months.

Annotations and watermarking: new capabilities in the embedded
preview of a file that allow end users to add annotations and
developers to display a watermark on files that contain sensitive
information. Annotations, available today in JavaScript and in the
coming months for iOS and Android, allow end users to add point
comments and highlight text directly on an embedded file preview.
Watermarking, available via the Box API today, will display the user’s
email address and access time on the file preview.

New programs and expanded support for the Box developer ecosystem

Developers leverage Box Platform to build all new experiences that
reimagine legacy business workflows and processes and take advantage of
new technology trends. Today there are now more than 80,000 developers
building applications and integrations with Box Platform, making more
seven billion API calls per month.

Box announced expanded support for its developer ecosystem, including
new and improved developer tools and a new incubator program in
collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

New Box Platform developer tools and technologies include:

Redesigned Developer Console: a major overhaul to the user
experience and functionality of the Box Developer Console. New
features include a new UI, guided walkthroughs for configuring
applications, easy access to support, documentation, and notifications.

Web UI Kit: pre-built and customizable user interface elements,
derived from the Box web and mobile applications, that enable
developers to modularly build user interfaces in their applications.
Available throughout the rest of the year, the new UI Kit includes a
file picker, content navigator, file upload, activity feed, open-with
and file preview. The new UI Kit will be open sourced, allowing for
complete customization.

Box Platform Incubator

In collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Box is announcing the
launch of the Box
Platform Incubator to foster the next generation of companies
building apps for the enterprise powered by Box Platform and AWS.

The next great enterprise apps will be cloud-based and massively
scalable, have user experiences that rival leading consumer
applications, and meet the security and compliance requirements of the
enterprise. To support the development of these apps, the Box Platform
Incubator offers free services from Box, and AWS will offer free usage
credits that can be applied to select AWS services, along with Box-led
marketing opportunities and mentorship from Box and AWS experts.
Companies interested in applying for the program will be able to apply
beginning on October 1, 2016.

Speaking and branding opportunities at Box Platform events and webinars

Box Platform customer momentum

Leading customers from a number of industries have selected Box Platform
to power new levels of productivity and drive transformational growth in
their businesses. Today at BoxWorks, several companies showcased how Box
Platform is transforming their businesses:

LegalZoom: The LegalZoom Estate Plan mobile app provides a
convenient way for customers to access legal documents and collaborate
with their attorneys. Box Platform is essential to creating an
effortless and secure experience. Beyond cloud storage of documents,
deep engagement is driven by enabling families to chronicle and share
life’s milestones.

Ipreo: Ipreo chose Box Platform to serve as the content layer
in its Ipreo
Prism application, which launched last month and provides secure
communication and shareholder management for private companies.

Perkins+Will: Built on Box Platform, Perkins+Will’s BluePrint
application will enable our teams to share and collaborate on projects
with our clients and stakeholders. Using BluePrint, clients will be
able to seamlessly access and interact with project information,
including design documents, images, photos, and other critical content
generated during the design process.

Team Rubicon: In partnership with NetHope, Team Rubicon and
other nonprofits, Box.org has joined ImpactCloud, a coalition of cloud
vendors (DocuSign, Okta, Salesforce.org, Splunk, Tableau, and Twilio)
to support crisis response organizations. The coalition and its
innovation framework enable nonprofits to research, affordably
acquire, build, and fund more integrated cloud solutions built on Box
Platform for crisis response.

All of these customers are driving innovation in their industries,
leveraging technology to connect with customers and partners in new,
digital formats that remove friction and make it easier to get work done.

“Building our Estate Plan app on Box Platform enables a seamless and
engaging customer experience,” said John Suh, CEO of LegalZoom.”
“Customers can securely access, edit and store their legal documents
with the option of connecting with their attorney for advice. A mobile
app provides an intuitively easier way to schedule calls, communicate
with your lawyer and sign/execute documents. We intend to remove the
unnecessary friction of printing, signing, mailing, notarizing, and
storing physical documents so you can effortlessly take care of your
loved ones.”

“As companies remain private longer and large banks are becoming more
interested in investing in private companies, we sought to leverage
technology to help make it easier for those two audiences to communicate
at scale,” said Charlie Young, EVP of Private Company Solutions at
Ipreo. “The Prism app allows private companies to communicate, share and
collaborate with large banks. Building on Box Platform allowed us to get
the application to market faster, transforming the way our clients work
with shareholders and banks.”

“Building BluePrint on the Box Platform will be a digital enabler for
our business. In the architecture and design field, digital applications
have historically focused more on project management and construction
process optimization, and less on stakeholder engagement. With this
experience-driven application, we can help our clients visualize design
and project information in a simple and beautiful manner,” said Murali
Selvaraj, Chief Information Officer at Perkins+Will. “Since Box Platform
powers the content, we can focus on building a truly immersive
client-centered digital experience, without having to build content
management functionality ourselves.”

“Box Platform supports all phases of our disaster response operations by
providing timely and secure information management for Team Rubicon
leadership that deploy our volunteers to disaster zones. This
communication to our volunteers makes it possible to a have much greater
impact on the communities we help," said Team Rubicon's Chief
Information Officer, Steve Hunt.

About Box

Founded in 2005, Box (NYSE:BOX) is transforming the way people and
organizations work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. As a
leading enterprise content management platform, Box helps more than
66,000 businesses, including General Electric, KKR & Co., P&G and The
GAP securely access and manage their critical information in the cloud.
Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United
States, Europe and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.